AbstractThe paper begins with a welfare-theoretic proposition: Systems competition is likely to weaken the territorially limited power of the state vis-à-vis internationally mobile capital, firms and consumers. Even if these changes should unambiguously benefit consumer interests, interests...

AbstractThe complexity of the multi-level European polity is not adequately represented by the single-level theoretical concepts of competing intergovernmentalist and supranationalist approaches. By contrast, empirical research focusing on mul-tilevel interactions tends either to emphasize the...